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Samuel Goldstein and Tra-My Dang earned the 2009 AP Scholar awards for the District of Columbia
Goldstein and Dang are both 2009 graduates of Woodrow Wilson Senior High School.
Goldstein is a freshman studying at Harvard College and Dang is a first-year student at Colgate University.
Annually, one male and one female AP student from each state are selected as that state’s AP Scholars. To earn the award, winners had to score the highest average grade on all of their AP exams. They also had to have scored a 3 or higher on the greatest number AP exams across their entire high school careers.
Dang took a total of 12 AP exams during her high school career, scoring perfect 5s on nine of them. Last year, she took Chemistry, English Literature and U.S. Government, earning scores of 5, 3 and 4, respectively.
Of the 15 AP exams Goldstein took while in high school, he earned a perfect 5 on them all. Last year he took exams in Chemistry, Computer Science AB, English Literature, Environmental Science, U.S. Government, Spanish Language and Statistics.
During the 2008-2009 academic year, 15.4% of all DCPS AP exam takers earned a score of 3 or higher. 10.8% and 6.7% earned scores of 4 or 5, respectively.
These numbers reflect great accomplishment for all DCPS AP exam takers as the number of students scoring a 3, 4 or 5 on at least one AP exam increased by 26.5 percent last year.
Woodrow Wilson Senior High School administered 1079 AP exams to nearly 500 students last year, accounting for almost half of the 2580 exams given District-wide.
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